THINK OF ONE
Think Of One see themselves as musical explorers. They love nothing more than travelling to distant countries to record with Moroccan, Inuit, Congolese or Brazilian musicians: they generally make extended stays to work with local artists, live with them, try to learn some of their musical language, and end up exchanging and melting musical ideas into new forms, in which the basic Think Of One ingredients are moulded and blended in with extra-European elements. T.O.O. are among those rare bands who really put the idea of transculturalism into practice. UK magazine fRoots may have described them as "dyed in the wool musical magpies", the results of each of their collaborations is always more than the sum of its parts, a new musical object, original and always extremely joyful and festive.
Tráfico
- Think Of One
- CD 69612
- Indigo
"Tráfico" is a great introduction to the world of T.O.O. Many tracks are infused with rhythms from the Brazilian northeast (côco, maracatu, forró and more), yet this isn't an album of Brazilian music, it's a trip to Thinkofone-land, interspersed with strange keyboards, thundering horns, quirky call-and-response vocals in Portuguese and Flemish, a cavalo marinho rhythm (inspired by the traditional musical drama performed in the streets of Pernambuco towns by sugar-cane workers) which mutates into a neo-punk jam, strange stories hummed in Antwerp dialect, and some remarkable avant-jazz horn arrangements performed by a quasi-big band.